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  *共* | 共* | *共
common / general / to share / together / total / altogether / abbr. for 共產黨|共产党, Communist party
HSK 4
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
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  *宫* | 宫* | *宫
palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale
HSK 6
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  *功* | 功* | *功
meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)
HSK 7-9
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  *供* | 供* | *供
to provide; to supply / to be for (the use or convenience of)
HSK 7-9
wheel / (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *攻* | 攻* | *攻
to attack / to accuse / to study / (LGBT) top
HSK 7-9
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  *供* | 供* | *供
to lay (sacrificial offerings) / (bound form) offerings / to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1]) / confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1])
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  *宫* | 宫* | *宫
surname Gong
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
Gong'an, a county in Jingzhou City 荊州市|荆州市, Hubei
lit. urgent beating of gongs and drums (idiom) / fig. to urgently prepare for an upcoming event
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  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
a bow (weapon) / CL: 張|张 / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
HSK 7-9
Gong Li (1965–), Chinese actress
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
opening gong / gong strokes announcing start of opera performance
General Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
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  *汞* | 汞* | *汞
mercury (chemistry)
gong bao chicken / spicy diced chicken
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  *筛* | 筛* | *筛
(bound form) a sieve / to sieve; to sift; to filter / to eliminate through selection / to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water) / to pour (wine or tea) / (dialect) to strike (a gong)
HSK 7-9
(PRC) China Zhi Gong Party, one of the eight legally recognized minor political parties following the direction of the CCP
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  *贡* | 贡* | *贡
surname Gong
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  *贡* | 贡* | *贡
to offer tribute / tribute / gifts
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  *锣* | 锣* | *锣
gong / CL:
gongs and drums / Chinese percussion instruments
lit. to beat a gong; fig. to irritate sb / a provocation
to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
to beat a gong
Li Wei Gong / Duke Li of Wei, official title of Li Jing 李靖
bamboo hat
Gong Cha, international franchise selling Taiwan-style milk tea and smoothies etc, established in Kaohsiung in 2006
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  *钲* | 钲* | *钲
gong used to halt troops
lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face
to beat the gong to open a performance
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
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  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
surname Gong
Zeng Gong (1019–1083), Song dynasty writer, one of the eight giants 唐宋八大家
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  *恭* | 恭* | *恭
respectful
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  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government)
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  *肱* | 肱* | *肱
upper arm / arm
small gong
Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet
Gong county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾, Sichuan
sound of gong
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  *巩* | 巩* | *巩
surname Gong
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  *巩* | 巩* | *巩
(bound form) to fix in place; to make firm and secure
to beat a gong
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  *拱* | 拱* | *拱
to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched
HSK 7-9
to strike the edge of the gong / (fig.) to stir the pot (i.e. cause or exacerbate a dispute)
Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
to beat the gong to clear the way / (fig.) to pave the way for sth
gong
gongs and drums overture to a Chinese opera / to create a disturbance
to clear a street by banging gongs and shouting loudly (idiom)
to beat a gong / to sound the retreat
to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
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  *蚣* | 蚣* | *蚣
used in 蜈蚣
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  *觥* | 觥* | *觥
big / cup made of horn / horn wine container
Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐 (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius
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  *呯* | 呯* | *呯
(onom.) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
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  *廾* | 廾* | *廾
hands joined
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  *唝* | 唝* | *唝
used for transcription in 嗊吥|唝吥
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  *栱* | 栱* | *栱
post
Gong county in Henan
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  *匑* | 匑* | *匑
to bow / to salute
(onom.) clang / clank of metal / sound of striking a gong
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  *铮* | 铮* | *铮
clang of metals / small gong
Duanmu Ci (520 BC-446 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Zi Gong 子貢|子贡
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  *龚* | 龚* | *龚
surname Gong
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  *汞* | 汞* | *汞
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  *珙* | 珙* | *珙
(gem)
Li Hongzhi (1951-), founder of Falun Gong 法輪功|法轮功
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  *躬* | 躬* | *躬
(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso) / (bound form) to bow / (literary) oneself; personally
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  *匔* | 匔* | *匔
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  *觵* | 觵* | *觵
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  *厷* | 厷* | *厷
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  *躬* | 躬* | *躬
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  *红* | 红* | *红


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